Privacy Policy for TourCuckoo.com

Last Updated: [Sept 15, 2025]

Welcome to TourCuckoo.com! We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how TourCuckoo.com (referred to as "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards your information when you visit our website, use our services, and interact with us.

By accessing or using our services, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the site.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information to provide and improve our services to you. The types of information we collect include:

• a. Personal Information You Provide Voluntarily:

  This includes information that directly identifies you or can be used to identify you.

  • Account Information: When you create an account, we collect your name, email address, and potentially a username.
  • Profile Data: If you choose to upload an avatar or profile picture, this image will be collected.
  • Comments and Reviews: Any content you post, such as comments, reviews, or other textual contributions, will be collected.
  • Communications: Records of any correspondence with us (e.g., customer support inquiries).
• b. Information Collected via Third-Party Login (Facebook & Google):

  When you choose to sign in using your Facebook or Google account, you grant us access to certain personal information stored by these third-party services. This information may include:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Your public profile information (e.g., profile picture, if shared)
  • Other information you permit the third-party service to share with us.

  We only collect the information that you explicitly allow these services to share with us during the login process. We encourage you to review the privacy settings of your Facebook and Google accounts to understand what information is shared.

• c. Automatically Collected Information (Non-Personal):

  When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain non-personal information about your device and browsing activity, such as:

  • Log Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring/exit pages, and dates/timestamps of your visit.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including pages viewed, links clicked, and features accessed.
  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. (See Section 6 for more details).

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To Provide and Maintain Our Services: To create and manage your user account, allow you to log in, and facilitate your use of our website features (e.g., uploading avatars, posting comments).
• To Personalize Your Experience: To tailor our content and recommendations based on your preferences.
• To Improve Our Website: To understand how users interact with our website, troubleshoot issues, and enhance functionality.
• To Communicate With You: To respond to your inquiries, send you service-related notifications (e.g., password resets), and, with your consent, send you marketing communications.
• To Enable Social Interaction: To display your avatar, username, comments, and reviews publicly on the website where appropriate.
• For Security and Fraud Prevention: To protect our website and users from fraudulent activities and security breaches.
• For Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.

3. How We Share Your Information

We may share your information in the following situations:

• With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any purpose with your explicit consent.
• Publicly Available Information: Your username, avatar, and any comments or reviews you post will be publicly visible on our website. Please be mindful of the information you choose to disclose publicly.
• Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf (e.g., website hosting, data analysis, customer support, marketing assistance). These third parties are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which it was disclosed.
• Third-Party Login Providers: When you use Facebook or Google login, these providers may access certain information for authentication purposes, subject to their own privacy policies.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
• Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• To Protect Our Rights: To enforce our terms and conditions, and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others.

4. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR & CCPA)

Depending on your location, you may have specific rights regarding your personal data.

• a. For Users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK (GDPR):

  Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to:

  • The Right to Access: Request copies of your personal data.
  • The Right to Rectification: Request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
  • The Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): Request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The Right to Object to Processing: Object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The Right to Data Portability: Request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
  • The Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
• b. For Users in California (CCPA/CPRA):

  Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), you have the right to:

  • The Right to Know: Request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell/share.
  • The Right to Delete: Request that we delete personal information collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
  • The Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: Request to opt-out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information (as those terms are defined under CCPA). TourCuckoo.com does not sell or share personal information in exchange for monetary compensation.
  • The Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information: Request that we correct inaccurate personal information.
  • The Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: For certain categories of sensitive personal information.
  • To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@tourcuckoo.com. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law.

5. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.

Since this is a worldwide service provided over internet, if you choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, store it to our servers, third-party servers and to our team in different places worldwide for handling the data and process it there.

By submitting your information and accepting this Privacy Policy, you consent to that transfer. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and store certain information.

• Cookies: Small files placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Service.
• Web Beacons: Small electronic files (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (e.g., recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

We may use both Session Cookies (which are deleted when you close your web browser) and Persistent Cookies (which remain on your device until they expire or you delete them).

Purposes of Cookies:

• Necessary Cookies: Essential for the website to function.
• Preference Cookies: Remember your preferences and various settings.
• Security Cookies: For security purposes.
• Analytics/Performance Cookies: Help us understand how the website is being used.

7. Data Security

We implement robust and appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, it's important to understand that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal data. We continuously review and update our security practices to address evolving threats.

In the unlikely event of a data breach, we are committed to taking prompt action, including investigation, mitigation, and, where legally required, notification to affected individuals and regulatory authorities in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

8. Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

9. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data protection rights, or our data practices, please contact us:

• By email: privacy@tourcuckoo.com